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... Figure 2 presents the map of factor scores for male Factor 3. Montana and Wyoming lead the way in injury mortality, with other states in the Mountain time zone also exhibiting high scores. States with large urban ... See full document

... Whereas self-selection into fields of study assumes that students plan their education to reflect existing preferences about marriage and family (Gemici and Wiswall 2014), the specialized education and peer group in ... See full document

... Women’s labor force participation remains low in Egypt, with the World Bank reporting 27% of adult women in the labor force in 2006 (World Bank 2010). Some estimates have put this number higher, closer to 60%, ... See full document

... The second model adds other family income to the education categories. Not surprisingly, the estimated effect is quite large: a doubling of other family income (a little more than half a standard deviation) would reduce ... See full document

... The independent variables in this study are the grandparental variables, which are time- varying. The transition to grandparenthood (variable ‘Grandparent’) is defined by the birth of the first-born grandchild. ... See full document

... • births to refer to all variables in the birth history, unions to refer to all vari- ables in the union history, and all to extract all variables in the dictionary. These three conventions may be freely combined in a ... See full document

... the article, the unexpected positive effect of women‘s high education in Southern Europe boils down to a strong time-squeeze effect, which in the event history models may more than compensate for the lowest ... See full document

... Job insecurity was not asked about during times of unemployment. For better coherence, we modeled job insecurity as a categorical variable with four categories: (0) employed, job very secure (reference category); (1) ... See full document

... To summarize major findings, among unmarried high school dropouts and among married teenage high school dropouts, US-born women tended to have a higher likelihood of using Medicaid for birth delivery than that of their ... See full document

... The moves of parents and children were measured according to four categories: 0 = no move, 1 = moves very close, 2 = moves close, and 3 = moves elsewhere. The choice of this measure is based on the assumption that ... See full document

... Table 2 provides the results for six models, which become increasingly complex. In Model 1 we considered the effect of partnership status on union dissolution, controlling only for the duration of the relationship ... See full document

... Sweden; 2) other cities with populations of more than 100,000; 3) larger towns with 50,000–100,000 inhabitants; 4) towns with 10,000–50,000 inhabitants; 5) small towns with 5,000–10,000 inhabitants; and 6) rural ... See full document

... This simulation study was constructed to demonstrate how the effect of education changes when replacing Model (1) with Model (2) in the case where the effect of age at first birth on the second birth intensity is ... See full document

... A well-known assumption of the model in (2) is that the dynamics follow a first- order Markov process (Rogers 1975, 1995), meaning that all age-specific transitions are governed by the transition probabilities ... See full document

... The dependent variables in Tables 6–7 are the net financial and net non-financial transfers given to living adult children (LAC) aged 15 and over that are calculated as the sum of the gross transfers (having provided and ... See full document

... The rationale is three-fold. First, I wanted a general mathematical representation of Bongaart’s “life extension” pill (Bongaarts and Feeney 2003) allowing for continuous variation in age and time. This is accomplished ... See full document

... (Table 2) show that about two thirds of Swedish-born women had been married at least once by age ...Table 2 cover all immigrants regardless of age at migration to ... See full document

... Figure 2, which reflects distances between the projected population of Austria and the population of people aged 10-20 in 1985 (mortality and fertility correspond to the Austrian rates in ... See full document

... later article, McDonald (2013) is explicit in that his theories are predictive for the macro-level association between fertility and gender equality and not for couple-level measures of gender ... See full document

... In addition to the TFRs, age-and parity-specific fertility rates (ASFRS and PSFRS) are calculated and plotted by calendar year in order to find out whether the change in fertility [r] ... See full document